This is just the beginning,” one Defense official said about the deployment of active-duty troops to the border with Mexico.

Social media users are claiming a video shows US soldiers, military vehicles and drones patrolling a walled-off section of the southern border with Mexico after President Donald Trump declared a national emergency and dispatched additional troops to crack down on illegal immigration.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he wants Congress to pass a bill that includes an increase in funding to secure the country's borders. "In the coming weeks, I'm looking forward to working with Congress on a reconciliation bill that financially takes care of our plans to totally and permanently restore the sovereign borders of the United States once and for all,